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The title Twice-Told Tales was based on a line from William Shakespeare's King John (Act 3, scene 4): "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." [ 4 ] The quote referenced may also be Hawthorne's way of acknowledging a belief that many of his stories were ironic retellings of familiar tropes. [ 5 ]
Twice-Told Tales, collection of previously published short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, issued in 1837 and revised and expanded in 1842. The 1837 edition consisted of 18 stories; the 1842 enlargement brought the total to 39.
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Twice-Told Tales is a 1963 American horror anthology film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Vincent Price. It consists of three segments, all loosely adapted by producer/screenwriter Robert E. Kent from works by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated together as members of Bowdoin College’s class of 1825, the friendship between the two men truly started with the above letter, written by Hawthorne to Longfellow on March 7, 1837.
Jun 1, 2006 · Included in this volume of Nathaniel Hawthorne's famously twice-told tales are "The Grey Champion," "Sunday at Home," "The Wedding Knell," "The Minister's Black Veil," "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," "The Gentle Boy," "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe," "Little Annie's Ramble," "Wakefield," "A Rill from the Town-Pump," "The Great Carbuncle," "The ...
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Nov 21, 2023 · The Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne was a collection of short stories originally published in magazines. The stories make extensive use of allegory to explore themes of Puritanical...
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The best text of the Twice-Told Tales is that published as Volume IX of the Centenary Edition of the complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, tales editor J. Donald Crowley, 1974, Ohio State University Press [Ce0974].
